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NEWS. TOCGOA. GEORGIA. THE LEGISLATURE. Bills Passed by he Senate and House of Representatives of Georgia. Governor Gordon, on Tuesday, signed the following important bills and they are now laws: An act to lie entitled un act to amend section five of an act en¬ titled an act to incorporate the Traders’ Bank of Atlanta, Ga. An act to authorize th j governor to sell the city Jot and old capital building in tho city of Atlanti, and all of its appurtenances, located on Marietta street, at public ea’e, after advertising the same one hundred days, and to make title of the purchase. An act to define the rights of landlords to declare the effects of cer¬ tain contracts to make it ]>inal for any cropper to sell or dispose of crops in cer tain cases, and to make certain acts of the landlord indictable. An act to amend section 339 of the code of 1882 so that it shall read “no or¬ dinary shall engage directly or indirect¬ ly, iu thepraciice of law in his own or in the name of another as partner, open or silent or otherwise, in any case or proceeding iu his own court or in another court of which his own court lias or has had or may have jurisdiction, or in any court or auy manner whatever iu behalf of or against auy executor, administra¬ tor, guardian or trustee, or other person acting in a representative capicity, whose duty it is to make returns to his court, except to give such advice or in¬ structions as his duty may require of him as ordinary in his own court and for which he shall receive only such fees as prescribed by law.” HILLS r ASS ED IJY THE SENATE, A bill to amend an act incorporating the Griflio, LnGrangc and Western rail¬ road; t > amend an act incorporating the Georgia Overland Railway and Improve men! Railway company; to incorporate the Street company of Clarksville; to change the time of holding the superior court <>f Rabun county; to incorporate the Simmons Short Line railroad; to in¬ corporate the Cartersvilie Street railroad company; to incorporate the Whit- field bank of Tunnel Hill; to incorporate the Florida, Dawson and Northern railroad; a bill to grant police powers to the county commissioners of Bibb county over the Central City Street Railroad company. Amended to read provided nothing in the act shall apply to public roads in the city of Macon. STOCKS TUMBLE. TnE COTTON SEED OIL COMBINE HAVING CONSIDERABLE TROUBLE. Calamity seemed to icach its climax Thursday, for tho bulls in the trus-t stocks, on the stock exchange at New York. The grief was concentrated in cotton oil crowd. Everybody was pre¬ dicting an immediate advance of many points in cotton oil certificates, based on ihe rosy programme of converting the trust into a corporation, aud reducing the capital from $42,00u,000 to $30,000,000. doubt of tho success. But alas for the frailty of promises and prospects in Wall street, tho popular expectation failed sadly of realization. Immediately on the opening of the market there was on over¬ whelming pre-sure to sell. The first sale was 41^, aud from that point a decline instantly set in, which hud no check until the price was hammered down to 86J. This tumble of five full points meant a shrinkage of over $2,000,000 iu the mar¬ ket value of the total capitnl of the trust. The scene on the stock exchange baffles description. Tho real reason for tho most of the de¬ cline was probably because of the serious disappointment which some prominent insiders felt at tho annual report. The showing of earnings flattering. for the last year is by no mentis For the first six mouths tho net profits wore entirely sat¬ isfactory, but tho last six months wero bad. The total net earnings for the year amount to a little over $1,600,000 which is at least $1,000,000 less than officially predicted. Several of the mills belonging to tho trust have been shut down on account of proving un¬ profitable, and it is said that several more will probably have to be closed for the same reason. The corporation into which the trust is to be resolved will be known as the Cotton Oil Company of New Jersey. BURNING WIRES. AN EXHIBITION OF THE POWER OF THE ELECTRIC CURRENT. A frightful exhibition of the power of the electric current of the street railway circuit was given at Cincinnati on Satur¬ day along the line of the Mount Auburn Street railroad. Their guard wire, which hangs nlove the conducting wire to protect other wires from coming in contact with the electric current, broke, and as it formed a circuit when resting on the charged wire with one end on the street the current passed through it. The result was terrifying. The wire be¬ came white w ith heat aud sparkled and flamed with the blue and white flashes of an overcharged conductor. Confusion reigned on the streets. The buruiug wise consumed and fell iu pieces. Men ran and women shrieked. Horses were frightened and rushed away from the dreadful light. Wagons and street cars oollided, but fortunately the falliug wire nowhere touched any human being and no casualties followed. THE SUPREME COURT OF HEW YORK SUSTAINS THE ELECTRIC LIGHT INJUNCTIONS. The Supreme Court of New York, ou Thursday, junctions rendered a decision in the in¬ obtained by toe electric light companies the against the city, in which it sustains temporary injunctions with certain be tried. modifications,‘until ■■■■■ The decision the cases can company should have reasonable oppoi to put its wires in safe condition, ana if it does not do so the same should be removed by the commissioner of pub¬ lic works as obstructions, or the matter •faould be laid before the grand iury. BANK STATEMENT. Following is a statement of the asso¬ ciated banks at New York for the week ending Saturday, November 2d: Beserve itaire&se..... $ 8,800 Loans decrease........ 758.200 Specie ■ • Legal increase,..... .. 547.200 tender* decrease .. 231.200 Deposits Circulation decrease...... .. 1,292 60f increase.. 16,300 The banks now hold $1,120,475 in ex- «esa of 25 per cent rule, SOUTHERN NEWS. ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM VA¬ RIOUS POINTS IN TEE SC DTE. A CONDENSED ACCOUNT OP WHAT IN GOING ON OP IMPORTANCE IN THE SOUTHERN STATES. Ftro Schofield building, adjoining Hollings- worth block, on Poplar street, Macon, Ga., and dest-oyed nearly $100,000 worth of property According * i . to the u order of , . business . before the Supreme Court of Alabama, the app aled cases of Dick Hawes, Fan- me Brymt aud others from Birmingham will not be reached until some time in December. A receiver was appointed, on Friday, for the firm of Ktinck, Vickenburg & Co., for the last half century engaged in r,^ Cery bus:ncs9 ia Charleston, 8. C. Liabilities are about $70,000, and assets nominally large. A Key West special to the Times- Un - ion, of Jacksonville, Fla., says: Del Pino Brothers’immense cigar factory, contain- ing one million cigars, besides a large quantity of tobacco, was consumed by fire Sunday morning. Charleston's great earthquake festival opened Monday with cloudless skies and charming weather. Public buildings, private residences and commercial houses were bedecked with flags and bunting from one end of the city to the other. Billy Ryan, lessee and manager of the Casino variety theatre, at Birmingham, Ala., left the city Saturday night for paits unknown, leaving about $2,000 of unpaid debts. Several members of his company are left without a dollar and several week’s salary due them. A dispatch from Dallas, Texas, says: A company with a capital of a million and a half has been organized to reclaim a hundred thousand acres of land near that city. It will be done by straight¬ ening the channel of Trinity river. The land will be worth ten million dollars. A. Hirsh & Co., the largest dry goods and militiery house in Birmingham, Ala., was closed on Saturday by the sheriff on attachments aggregating $43,000. About $20,000 of the attachments are in favor of clerks in the store and relatives of the firm. The Alabama National bank at- t relied $19,000. News comes from Spartanburg, one of the best cotton-growing counties of North Carolina, of a new cotton plant, which, if it is as claimed, will make a wonderful revolution in the agricultural and cotton oil interests of the nation. T. Ferguson, an experienced cotton planter, claims to have a cotton plant which will produce nothing but cotton seed without the lint. Rube Burrow, the train robber, took a ride on the night express train on the Kansas City, Memphis and Birmingham railroad Tuesday night. He was seen aud recognized, but no one attempted his capture. He boarded the train, west bound, at a small station in the western pa:t of Alabama, and rode a few miles across the line into Mississippi. He was alone, but carried a large Winchester rifle and two pistols. The superior court of Richmond county, Ga., has decided against a num¬ ber of prominent citizens who, twenty years ago, subscribed to the capital stock of the National Express and Transporta¬ tion company. A test case was made on Wednesday in case ofWilliam H. Howard, a prominent and wealthy cotton factor, and a verdict rendered against him. This virtually carries the other cases with it. The verdict is regarded as a great hardship, although in accordance with court decisions in these cases in all states from Maine to Texas. One of the largest transactions in land ever cousumated In the South, has re¬ cently been perfected at Jacksonville, Fla., and made public Friday. All unsold lands in Florida of the Plant system of railroads and steamships, of the Florida Southern railroad, of the Jacksonville, Tampa & Key West system, including the Florida Southern railway, and the Florida Commercial company, have been consolidated under the name of the As sociated Railway Land Department of Florida. Over six million acres of land are consolidated under one management by the formation of this syndicate. A POWERFUL ORDER. THE PATRONS OF HUSBANDRY GOING TO HAVE THINGS THEIR OWN WAY. A dispatch from Port Huron, Mich., says that not less than 75.000 Michigan farmers have joined the Patrons of Hus¬ bandry since last May, and the number is increasing ^ -ery week. They threaten to become a controlling power in toe politics of the state, and then to spread over the entire country. The patrons claim to have beeu forced into being by monopolies and trusts, and they propose to organize a combination that will strike terror to the hearts of their ene- nries. At present the patrons are devo¬ ting themselves exclusively to merchants, aud in every town where they have a foothold they enter into an iron clad contract with oue dealer in each line of trade to purchase only from him, exact¬ ing a pledge that they shall not bo charged to exceed twelve per cent ad¬ vance on wholesale prices. The patrons have lodges iu forty-seven counties, with a membership of more than 5,000. SUEING A NEWSPAPER. MRS. MACKAY, OF CALIFORNIA, SUES AS ENGLISH PAPER FOR LIBEL. The action for libel brought by Mrs. John 4V. Mackay against toe Manchester, England, Examiner , came up for hearing in the court of queens bench, Thursday. The libel complained of alleged that the plaintiff was a poor widow with two children, and that she was employed as a washerwoman by Nevada miuers when and Mackay was first attracted toward her fell in love with her and married her. The plaintiff contends that the words of the article suggested that she was not a lady of birth or education, and that she was not accustomed to associating with persons of good positions. THE BANK CLOSED IN GONSEQUENCE OF ITS DEFAULTING CASHIER. Ou the door of the Tradesmen’s Na- tional bank of Conshocken, Ps., on Thursday, was posted the following no- tices: “To whom it may concern: This bank is closed iu consequence of toe defalcation of the cashier. The deposit- ors will suffer no loss.” The cashier refeired to is William Henry Cresson, and the amount of his defalcation is not less than $50,000, and may exceed $75,- 000, Cresson has lived in Conshocken six or seven years, and had made him- self quite prouinent in the place, and his name had become identified with sev- eral of its leading enterprises. HOW IT WAS DONE. A STORY DETAILING THE MANNER IS WHICH DU. CRONIN WAS KILLED. A special dispatch from Winnipeg, Canada, Saturday morning, says: “As¬ sistant State’s Attorney Baker, of Chi¬ cago, had a long interview with Bob . Heffer. and from him receive! a detailed ' “"“J °. f lhe flurry «f Cronin B k took a *i u ct fa /> c J to Heffer, and ^ T*' r * v co J nmi j nicat ive wita him, tel.mg 'S J the C "u 6 - H ° ' told t Heffer u that Coughlin was the main act0 r in the tra^edv and had engaged both him and Coonev to mrtirin£te°in the crime. He told Heffer that sand bags were used bv two of the assassins while the third wielded a common base- ball bat; that he was under the impres- eion that Cronin was being decoyed to the cottage under the pretext that he was goi D g to attend a sick woman, who waj represented to be at the point of death. Four men were waiting in the cottage for him. They listened for the sound ol wheels. At last the carriage drove up, and an instant later the doctor hurried «P * be ■ t *P» and knocked loudly aud na8tu g y as 11 be realized that his presence was urgently required. Two of the as- sasrins stood behind the door ready to 8tr ^ e > while one of the others from the inner ro< m called out in a loud voice, “come in.” The door was quickly opened and the doctor strode in. The instant he was in one of the assassins slammed the door, while the other struck the physician a terrible blow with a sand floor.” bag. The doctor fell heavily to the Burke always decliueel to sav who struck the first blow, and this fact, Baker thinks, makes it quite clear that it was Burke himself, else he would have mentioned the name. He always spoke about the four taking part in tile crime and poundtug the doctor at the same time. The moment the doctor was down, the whole four rushed on him, and with sand bags and clubs pounded the life out of him. The poor man struggled, and moaned awfully. Blood poured from his mouth, nose and before* eyes. Nearly twenty minutes elapsed he cease 1 to gasp. Then the fiends stripped the blood-stained clothing off of him and one of them pounded his face so as to make it impossible to recognize the body. Coughlin then hauled the trunk over and the body was crammed into it. One of the quartette went out aud brought an express wagon which had been left in a convenient place. When they Went to carry the trunk out blood was dripping from it and ran on the floor, and tho trunk was set down and these leaks stopped with cotton batting, which was found in the doctor’s instrument case. The trunk and its contents were then taken to the lake, Coughlin driving the horse. There was a boat at the point expected, and they tried to shove the trunk out into the water, but it would not work. Anxious to get rid of the body some way, Burke suggested that it be thrown into the catch-basin. The suggestion was adopted. NATIONAL THANKSGIVING. PRESIDENT nARRISON ISSUES HIS THANKS¬ GIVING PROCLAMATION. The following proclamation setting apart Thursday,November 28th as a day of national thanksgiving was issued by Presiident Harrison on Friday. By the president of the United States.—A mindful proclamation. A highly favored people, of their dependence on the boun¬ ty of Divine Providence, should -seek a fitting occasion to testify gratitude and ascribe praise to Him who is the author of their many blessings. It behooves us, then, to look back with thankful hearts over the past year and bless God for his infinite meicy in vouchsafing to our land enduring peace; to our people freedom from pestilence and famine; to our husbandmen .abundant harvests, and to them that labor recompense of their toil. Now, therefore, I, Benjamin Harrison, President of the United States of Ameri¬ ca, do earne-tly recommend that Thuts- dtiy, the twenty-eighth day of this pres¬ ent moilih of November, be set apart as a day of national thanksgiving and prayer, and that the people of our coun¬ try, ceasing from the cares and labors ol tliejr working day, shall assemble in their respective places of worship and give thanks to God, who has prospered us on our way and made our paths the paths of peace, beseehing him to bless the day to our present and future good, making it truly one of thanksgiving foi each reunited home circle as well as for the nation at large. In witness whereof, 1 have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be af¬ fixed. Done at the city of Washington, this first day of No'vember, in the yeai of our l ord eighteen hundred and eighty- nine, and of the independence of the United States the one hundred and four- teeath. Benjamin Harrison.” GOOD NEWS, WHAT A PROMINENT COTTON FIRM SAYS OF THE OUTLOOK. The following from an autograph cir¬ cular of Messts Latham, Alexander & Co., the well known bankers and com¬ mission merchants of New' York, will be of interest to those interested in cotton: “Planters,” say the firm, “in many sec¬ tions, are sending their cotton to markit in a deliberate manner. A systematic nod commendable, abrupt holding back of the crop of is not and such a course action has not been adopted in the South. Plauters their have, however, resolved not to rush cotton to market, and it is gratifying to know that they are in a posiriou to adopt their present policy without being dilatory in meeting their obligations. The fact is, they have made their crops with much lighter advances from factors and n e - chants than in any previous year. They have used less of commercial fer¬ tilizers than formerly. The majority of them are, therefore, in a position to sell their cotton when they please. It is gratifying to see planters now approach¬ ing a condition of permanent financial independence. ‘ The demand is so great that a higher plane of value for cotton than in some years past, seems likely for this season ” A MANIAC’S DEED. CRA11ED THROUGH FINANCIAL TP.OCBLES, KILLS HIS WIFE AND CHILDREN. -- A terrible tragedy occurred Monday morning in Vergennes township, Kent county, Micli. llaggal Westbrook, a farmer, took a hammer and fractured his wife's skull, and then went to a room where his three small girls were asleep and treated than in about toe same man- ner- Westbrook then ran down stairs, procured his razor, and cut his own throat. Westbrook is dead, and report says the girls were instantly ki.led, and that Mrs. Westbrook is mortally wounded. Westbrook was in financial difficulty and had become insane. GENERAL NEWS. CONDENSATION OF CURIOUS, AND EXCITING EVENTS. NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE—ACCIDENTS, STRIES*. FIRES, AND HAPPENINGS OP INTEREST. Meetings of the Salvation Army have been foroidaca in Switzerland. The total number of women killed in ** Glissbow factory by the fall of u wa ii WAfl * as thlrtv tmrt y* ’ The fued of the Hatfields and McCoys in Lincoln county, West Virginia, is re- P orted to be in bloody progress, The new census of India {.ives the population in March, 1888, as 269,477,- 728, of which 60,684,378 belong to the naive States. M. Selto & Co , notion jobbers, at Philadelphia, Pa. assigned Tuesday, with liabilities likely to reach $100,000. As ets about one-third. ( hnlpra is still ramner in the vallevs of the Tigris thfee and Euphrates During the last months there have been 7,00J f i« a ths f nm the diseRae Four deaths from diptheria were re- poited in Fuirhaven, Conn., Tuesday, and some anxiety is caused by the news. The vicrims are all children. The reports of destitution in North Dakota are said to be greatly exaggera¬ ted. There is nothing in the situation to justify the leports that a famine ex¬ ists in Dakota. Mr. Joseph Pulitzer, of the New York World , is about starting from Paris upon i tour around the world, accompanied of by invited guests. 11c got s by way the Suez Canal, India and Japan. The emigration comm ssioners at New York, on Friday, notified all steamship companies that a head tax of fifty cents each wili be collected fiom them for every alien that they will bring heie. This will include children. The Piince of Wales sailed on the royal yacht Osborne, fit m Alexandria, arrival Egypt, for Piraeus Tuesday. Upon he his at Alexandria from Cairo, re¬ ceived an ovation. The streets were decorated with garlands and flag?, and triumphal inches were erected along the route taken by the priiice. The exports of specie from the port of New York last week amounted to $421,- 284. of which $63,050 was in gold and $358,234 iu silver. All the diver went to Europe, and all the gold to South America. The imports of specie for the week amounted to $351,272, of which $301,895 was in gold and $49,377 was in silver. By the breaking out of molten iron iu the stack of Colbrook furnace No. 1, at Lebanon, P«., Monday alternoon, five men wero killed, and three severely burned. The men, all of whom were la¬ borers, were overwhelmed by the rush of molten metal while at work, and some of them were burned almost beyond recog¬ nition. The gable wnll of a building that was being erected alongside of Templeton’s carpet factory at Glasgow, Scotland, was blown down Friday. An immense ma^s of debris fell on the roof of the wear¬ ing department of the factory, crushing it employed in, and burying weaving fifty girls and women iti the rooms. It is probable that fbi-ty of those buried ate dead. M. Mackenon organizer of the London expedition to relieve Emin Pasha, has received the following dispatch from Zanzibar: Letters have been received from Stanley, dated Victoria, August 29th. With him were Emin Bey, Casati Marco, a greek merchant, Esman Effendi Hnssan, a Tunisian apothecary. Stars Nelson, Jephson Parke and Bonny. Eight hundred people accompany him toward Mpwapwa. All were well. Stan¬ ley reports Waddell in the hands of the Mahadists. GEORGIA GOLD MINES TO he rUKCHAgED AND OPERATE!) Et A BOSTON SYNDICATE. Mining circles are agitated is over a ru¬ mor that a Boston syndicate negotiat¬ ing for the purchase of the Dahlonega, Ga., gold mining property. The rumor states that the owner will dispose of all the valuable water power, acqueducts and mines for the sum of $1,500,000. The Boston syndicate, it is stated, have discovered that the gold of the Dahlonega mines can be worked to advantage cheap¬ er than any other known property. Low grade ores, which assay one dollar to the ton, can be milled for twenty-five cents, leaving a handsome profit. In the west ore which averages two and three dollars a ton, cannot be worked without loss. The ore of the Dahlonega mines is almast inexhaustible, and it is said the Boston syndicate, if the purchase is made, will work on the system that the greater the output the greater the profit. A REPORTED BATTLE IN KENTUCKY IN WHICH SIX MEN ARE KILLED. A special to the Louisville Courier- Journal from Pineville, Ky., says: News reached here that Judge Lewis came up with Howard and his gang Thursday on Martin’s Fork and killed six of the How¬ ard gang without losing a man. Three of toe men killed were named Hall, one named Whitlock, the other the two judge names not learned. Friends of say that he is determined, and will never quit his chase until Howard and his gang are all killed or driven from the country. Both parties are being reinforced daily, and more bloodshed is expected. It is thought that Howard has gone to Vir¬ ginia, but is expected to return. The best citizens of Harlan county, Ky., are joining Judge Lewis, and with such a determined leader there is no doubt but that the law and order party will come out victorious, and break up the gang that has been a terror to all eastern Ken¬ tucky for the last twenty-five years. BOUGHT A BRIDE- AN OLD MAN GIVES $100,000 IN CASH FOB A WIFE. Jesse Fovell, seventy-nine years old,ot Calhoun county, 111., and Mamie Isdell, twenty-three years old, of St. Louis,Mo., were married a few days ago. It is said the uld gentleman ia worth about half a million dollars, and lives on a farm in Calhoun county, III. His nephew, Isaac Fovel, lives in St. Louis, and Miss Isdell, beautiful and accomplished, but poor, has been sort of companion and nursery governess in Isaac’s family. The uncle recently visited his nephew, and became greatly smitten with the yoimg girl’s charms. He paid court to her, and the affair, ac¬ cording to the story, culminated in a cash offer of $100,000, which was ac¬ cepted. BUSINESS OUTLOOK. DCS & CO.’S REPORT FOR "WEEK ESDISG SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2d. R. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review says: Money has been working closer the past week.* falling to four per cent, but then raising steadily to nine, even more being paid in some cases. Prices are suffering, though the general level has advanced scarcely a quarter of one per cent, in two weeks.* In speculative markets there has been more activity, and except in pork products and coffee, an advance. These changes call for more money in the movement of products and building op¬ erations are also unusually active at many cities. Liquidation in trust stocks con- tinues, particularly in cotton oil, which has been heavily sold at a severe decline. But railroad stocks have been stubbornly held, and the average in price almost exactly as they did a week ago. Arrange¬ ments between the Chicago and North¬ western and the Union Pacific and the rumored sale of the Chicago and Alton look toward the consolidations of the great systems,and in the end a projected but railway trust of gigantic proportions, lead meanwhile popular disfavor may to interruption by congress ot state legisla¬ has tion. Speculations in breadstuffs advanced, wheat If, and corn 1} cents on sales of twenty-five and ten million bushels, respectively, but exports do not increase. Oil has advanced 3|, oats | and cotton f. Coffee has de¬ clined a quarter upon larger crop esti¬ mates from Brazil. The sugar market is only nominal and prices of refined are not well maintained* but the trust stock has been more firmly supported. weather, Coal but has been stiffened by cooler still sell about forty Cents below circular prices. Iron aud steel in all forms are ih great demand and firmly held with a shade of an advance in bar iron and nails, but the feeling is expressed that the im¬ provement has been too rapid deemed to be maintained, and some reaction is possible. Chicago reports money be¬ coming tighter oecause of the country d< mands, but no apprehensions regarding the immediate future, an active trade iu dry goods, wool and hides, but dullness in* clothing and boots and shoes. At Pittsburg, window glass has advanced ten per cent, and a rise in coal is ex¬ pected; iron products are firm. All othet points trade 13 full and active for eeasoii with scarcely an exception. Bus¬ iness failures during last week, 32, number in United States, 229; Canada, Total, 261, against 225 last week. CROP BULLETIN, ISSUED FROM THE CIVIL HUKEAU FOR fffE MONTH OF OCTOBER; The monthly weather crop bulletin of the sign tl bureau for October says: Oc¬ tober nas been cooler than usual in all agricultural districts east of the Rooky mountains, except in D ikota. The daily average temperature for the month in the wiuter wheat belt, including the states in the Ohio and upper Mississippi valley, ranges from four degrees to eight de¬ grees below normal. About the same thermal conditions prevailed in the mid¬ dle Atlantic states, Southern New Eng¬ land end along the south Atlantic coast, while in the gulf state* the deficiency in temperature ranged from about one de* : to four degrees. Thera was a slight excess ih teinpefature in the Ilocky mountain district had thence W stward to the Pacific boa§t. The linfc df killing frost has extended south to the northern portion of the gulf states and the north¬ ern portion of South Carolina and we-t- ward to the western portion of Washing¬ ton territory,central Oregon and northern Nevada and light frosts occrured as far south as southern Alabama, central Geor¬ gia and northern Louisiana. Tncre has been less rain than usual in the central valleys, and generally thr. ug’iout Mori thd southern states and New England. than the usual amount of rain occurred lu California and Oregon, in the middle Atlantic states and ill the centr U Ro :ky raoufifain plateau region. The rainfall was fornia, greatest generally gfeatest throughout Cali¬ fiver tiie portion of whicii the monthly rainfall exceeded six inches. About two inches of rain occurred during the month in the winter wheat region; extending from the lake region and southern Iowa southward to the gulf states, and only light showers occurred, in the northwest, including Minnesota, Dakota, Nebraska and northwestern Iowa. The drouth condition which existed in the central valleys has been succeeded by timely rains, which have doubtless greatly improved the winter wheat crop, lhe drouth continued during the month in the southern portion of the gulf states, extending from Florida westward over southern Texas, over which region only light showers are reported, and the de¬ ficiency of rainfall for the month ranges from one to five inches, but this morning, (November 1) generous rains are reported from Texas,northern Louisiana and south¬ ern Alabama, and rains are heavy- in central Mississippi and lower Missouri valleys, with heavy snows in Nebraska and western Kansas. MORE MONEY WANTED. *THE SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE BAYS THE APPROPRIATION IS TOO SMALL. The annual report of the secretary of agriculture was made Tuesday, The ‘ecretary makes the usual references to the work of the several scientific and other divirions of his department and deals at length with certain plans for the organization of the department, and sug¬ gests several new features in the interest of the department of agriculture. The fecretary calls attention to the small ap¬ propriation for the current fi-cal year, and insists on adequate appropriations to enable him to meet what he believes to be the obligations of the department to toe country. The problem which present ed itself to the secretary, that of getting toe results the work done by the department of more promptly before the people has been solved, he says, by the establishment of a new di¬ vision which furnishes promptly to the ngricuituial and commercial press i synopsis of the main points of every bulletin and report published by the de- partment. Farmers’ institutes are re- ferred to particularly, a? one of toe greatest movemen's in the history of agriculture and as the strongest lever for raising and upholding the work of the superior agricultural education repre¬ sented by our system of agricultural col¬ leges and experiment stations. The sec¬ retary recommends that the department a;d and should be empowered to afford mcouragement to this work. THE SUPPLY OF COTTON, The total visible supply of cotton for the world is 2.020,691 bales, of which 1,737,091 bales are American, against V,697,786 and 1,478,886 bales respect¬ ively last year. Receipts at all interior towns, 187,870 bales. Receipts at plan¬ tations, 329.108 bales. The crop in sight is 2,143,199 bales. _____ WASHINGTON, D. C, MOVEMENTS OF TEE PRESIDENT AND HIS ADVISERS. APPOINTMENTS, DECISIONS, AND OTHER MATTERS or interest from the national capital. Secretary Tracy, Friday, formally ac¬ cepted the cruiser Charleston. The Washington Star says that invest¬ igation of the charge* of opium levealed smug¬ the gling at San Francisco has fact that du ing the past six months the government has been defrauded of $400,000 in duties through the opera¬ tions of a gaug of smugglers. The collector of customs at Norfolk, Va., has asked the treasury department practipe for instructions in regard to tho of Liverpool cotton merchants of send¬ ing men under contract from that city to Norfolk for the purpose of tuying and grading cotton tor the English trade. The immigrant inspector for the state of Virginia reported the matter to the col¬ li ct ir as a violation of alien contract la¬ bor, and the collector wants to know what he can do al out it. Treasury offi¬ cials are divided in opinion in the mat¬ ter, and it will probibly be referred to the solicitor for settlement. The following dispatch was sent from the executive mansion, on Saturday af¬ ternoon, to Governors Melletta and3Iiller, of North and Sou to Dakota, Bismark, North Dakota: “The last act in the admission of the two Dakotas as states in the union was concluded this after¬ noon at the executive mansion* by the president signing at that moment the proclam ttion required by law for the ad- mission of the states. The article on prohibition, submitted separately in each state, was adopted in both. This is the first instance in the history of the nation¬ al government that two states North and South Dakota, entered the union at the same moment.” Quartermaster-General S. B. Holabird, of tiie army, in his annual report to the secretary of war, recommends the enlist- nit nt oi n.en for the quartermaster-gen¬ eral’s department, the establishment of drill halls for winter exercise of troops, and stales that repairs are needed to roads leading to the national cemeteries at Clialmette, La., Natchez, Miss,, Knoxville, Tcnn., Richmond, Ya., Vicks¬ burg, Miss., and others. He also rec¬ ommends that permanent means of ap¬ proach be established to the national cemeteries at Alexandria, Arlington, Va., Culpepper, Va., Fredericksburg, Va., Fayetteville, Ark., Foplaf Grove, Va., York- Va.-, Staunton, Va., Seven Pines, low n, Va., and Athens. The director of the mint has submit¬ ted to the secretary of the treasury his annual fepOit. He savs the value of gold deposited Was $48, *900,712, of which $31,440,778 consisted of the product of mines of the United States, a falling of! in gold product of abOfit one million dollats, us compared with the previous fiscal year. Silver received aggregated $35 627,273 standard ounces tor coining value ot $41,457,190. Of silver received, $32,895,985 standard ouuces of counting value of $8,278,964 was classified as of domestic production, Profit on the coinage of silver dollars during the year was $9,370,062 and on snbsidary silver coins, $32,987; total coinage of silver dollars under the Bland act to and November, 1889, was $343,638,- 001. total profit on silver coinage to July 1, 18S9, $59,378,254; net distribution profit af¬ ter deducting expenses for June and wantage for eleven years ended 30, 1880, was $56,349,737. The direG- tor recommends legislation looking to-* wards a discontinuance of coinage of $3 and $4 gold pieces and the three-cent nickel piects and withdrawal from circu¬ lation of pieces of those denominations now outstanding. A PHILANTHROPIST. THE WILL OF HENRY STEERE, AND THE BEQUESTS IT CONTAINS. The will of Henry J. Steere, one of the wealthiest men in Providence, R. I., who died recently gives away directly and in trust the surd total of $1,139,000. Mr. Steete was a single gentleman, and was all his life distinguished fer philanthrop- ic»l impulses. He gives *654,500 to in- 2l2. d Si?.»'SwL, ta T?’ ?o charUaWo oig .ntatons freedmen etc., ia of *340,- Prov- 000. The home for the idence received $150,000; Home for Aged Women, of Providence, $25,000; Benefi¬ cent Congregational church and St. Stephen’s Episcopal church, Providence, get $50,000 and $5,000 respectively; the Charitable Fuel society, of Provi- idence, $5,000, and to the Rhode Island Historical society is bequeathed $10,- 000; The Tabor college, in Iowa, is given 50,000, and the Roanoke college, at Salem, Va., $25,000. The executor oT of the vast property is Alfred Metcalf, Providence, who is only required to give personal bond to nav the les cies. etc. FIGHTING OVER THE ROAD, CITIZENS OPPOSE THE CONSTRUCTION OF CHATTANOOGA’S BELT ROAD. An interesting railroad fight is in pro¬ gress in the Chattanooga, Tenm, courts. miles The belt railroad, operating forty of transportation lines, attempted to build a line to Lookout mountain. They had to cross a road leading to Forest Kill cemetery. The Cemetery association en¬ joined tliem, and the county courts sub¬ sequently granted the right of way across the road in controversy. On Wednesday, the citizens of St. Elmo, a suburb of Chattanooga, filed a bill to enjoin the company from building the road, and in order to avoid the right of way granted by the county, the bill attacks the char¬ ter under a late decision of the supreme court, as other companies are endeavor¬ by°the ing to occupy the territory now occupied Btrit Railroad company. Great excitement prevails in railroad circles, and the outcome will be awaited with great interest. A temporary writ of in¬ junction was granted upon the bill. FROZEN TO DEATH. COWBOYS CAUGHT BY A BLIZZARD AND SUCCUMB TO THE COLD. One of the results of the terrible bliz¬ zards which swept over western Colora¬ do and northern New Mexico Thursday and Friday of last week, reached Denver 3Ionday from Folsom, N. M. Thursday several cow- bojs. who were camping near fcleira Grande with 1,800 beef ca’tle, were struck bv the blizzard and became sepa¬ rated Friday night. Gee of them wan¬ dered into Head’s home ranch, half dead with cold and hunger. He told his story, and a rescuing party was immediately sent out, and the frozen bodies of Henry Miller, Joe Martin and Charlie Jolly were found ljing on the open plains not far from Folsom. The other men suc¬ ceeded in finding their way to the camp before being overcome with cold. “HULLO.* Wen you see a man in woo OS __ Walk right up and say “hullo ?• Say “hullo” an 7 “how d’ye dot ; Slap How’s the the fellow world on a-usin’ his back, you?" Vy Bring yer han’ down with a whack; Waltz right up an’ don’t go slow, Grin an' shake an’ say “hullo!” Ts he clothed in rags? O sho! - Walk right up and say “hullo V* Rags is but a cotton roll Jest, for wroppin’ up a soul; An’ a soul is worth a true. Hale, an' hearty “how d’ye do!” Don’t wait for the crowd to go. Walk right up and say “hullo"* W’en big vessels meet, they say. They saloot and sail away. Jest the same are you an’ me— Lonesome ships upon a sea; Each one sailing his own jog For a port beyond the fog. Let yer speakin'-trumpet blow, \ Lift her horn an’ cry “hullo'* Say “hullo’’an’ “how d'ye do'” Other folks are good as you. W’en yer leave yer house of clay, Wanderin’ in the far-away, W’en you travel through the strange Country t’other side the range. Then the souls you’ve cheered will know Who you be, an’ say “hallo!” —S'. W. Foss. HUMOR OF THE DAI. A chatter box—The phonograph. Useless with “hands off"—The clock. Forced politeness-—Bowing to neees- g ^. A little thing that feels big in a tight place is a corn. Age is not always a criterion of ability; for many a man of thirty can often “lie like sixty.” A fitting tribute—The check that pays for your suit of clothes. — Washington Capital. Bertie—“Charles ha» lost his reason ing power.”—Algernon—“I pity thn finder.”— Time. ’Tis not criminal to owe your hatter. Nor a cause for worriment; and yet. The conviction is not one to fiatter That you’re “over head and ears iu debt.” “Home, Sweet Home,” is a beautiful song, but if sung too early in the evening it is apt to hurt a sensitive young man's feelings .—New York Journal. “Yes,” admitted the visitor, when the proud mother exhibited her >*aby, “he has his father's nose, but don't worry. It may not always be that red.” A London merchant advertises that he is “special umbrella maker to the Queen,” and the Lynn Item thinks Victoria's long reign has probably been profitable to him. Consistency is indeed rare. A man will unblushingly comb his back hair over a bald spot on the top of his head, and yet expect a grocer to put his smallest apples in the top laver of the box. A speaker at a public meeting talked and talked and talked. “How full he ia of his subject?” said a friend. “Yes," said an enemy; “but how slow he is to empty himself !”—San Francisco Warp. Now pick out the biggest of pumpkins; The daintiest apple and pear; The reddest tomato; The finest potato; And bring them along to the fair. —DansciUe Breeze. The inventors who have gTowu tired of the perpetual motion problem might turn their attention to discovering some method by which a dog's skin could b« tanned with his own bark. -— Mercha nt. Traveler. Englishmen propose to liny up the ga« plants of Chicago and furnish fuel at twenty-five cents a thousand feet. They won’t make much money if the feet are of the regulation kind iu that city .—New York News. “What prompted you to rob this man’s till ? ” asked the judge of the prisoner. “My family physician, sir,” 1 was the reply; “he told me it was abso¬ lutely necessary that I should have a little change.” “The Empress of Austria sits alternate- , on sidc her b „ au article on Horseman,hip for Women." Everybody -Hi t- gM to l.cer that the slts tha ‘ alternately and not ennui- taneously. Terre Haute Express. Constituent (to newly-elected Con- gressman,—“You’re Congressman—“Er—well, a pretty big man now, eh?” I don’t know. I did lay that flattering unction to my soul until 1 saw my moth er-in-law scornfully sizing me up .”—New York Journal. “How does it happen that the couple over the way live so happily together' They have been married now' twenty-two years and have never yet had a dispute.’ 1 “No wonder; she goes out teaching music all day long away from home and he is a night editor on a daily paper.” Housemaid— ‘‘There is a gentleman* downstairs, m’m. who is almost pulling the bell out, and says he wants the key to the fire alarm laox.” Mistress (rushing to the mirror)—“Ask him to send up his card, and tell him I w'ill be down in a few minutes .”—Burlington Free Press. Decendants of Bread Makers Our Bakers, say's an English paper, speaking of family names, maybe readily turned back to their floury-handed an • cesters, but the Baxters must be followed for generations before we find they were of the same family; being the defendants of the Bagsters, who were the offspring of the Bagesters, who acknowledged that they were the children of the Bakesters, who were femenine bakers, Of the bread making tribe were also the Pread- ers and the Whitbreds, the latter perhaps once priding themselves on the color of their stock in trade, while nearly related to them were Mills, the Millers and the Mealers. The large and respectable family ot Boulangers came from the'French bakers, who carried on their trade in England during the age when family names were growing, while Mr. Lowe suggests that the Bollingers and the Bulliners are of the same origin. Few points in Great Britain are more . than a hundred miles from the sea, and in all ages fish has formed one of the staple articles of British diet. Catching toe fish was. therefore, an important in¬ dustry., and Fish, Fisher and Fisherman, doubtless had their origin in the occu- pation the men who first assumed these names, of which fact there is abundant record. It is quite possible also, as Max Muller suggests, that men may have made a specialty of taking or of selling a particular kind of fish, and thus Salmon, from Robert le Salmoner.: Bering, from John le Heringer.; and Tiouter, from Roger le Trowter, may have arisen with- ■out .violence-to the-laws of.Dtuloiasr.